Argenteus
/ar-JEN-tee-us/🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate
Also known as: argentea, argenteum
A color epithet describing a plant with conspicuously silver or silvery-white parts — usually foliage covered in dense silver hairs, or fruits and bark with a metallic silver sheen. Distinct from glaucus (blue-grey bloom) and albus (white). Appears as argenteus (masculine), argentea (feminine), or argenteum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin argenteus, meaning "of silver" or "silver-coloured," from argentum (silver).
Example
“Artemisia argentea and Convolvulus cneorum have the intensely silver, reflective foliage that fully justifies the silver epithet.”